Just had this sent to me, imagine comments like this on UK TV ? I think not.
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Nah, thats true. What we get is fawning over them, and supporters wishing that their club were owned by people like them
Really enjoyed this video
Noticed yesterday that the commentators were creaming themselves over PSG getting to the final, like it was some amazing achievement and great to see because it's taken them almost a decade since massive investment
It's actually really embarassing how bad they have been in the champions league for so long despite being bankrolled by a regime
Noticed yesterday that the commentators were creaming themselves over PSG getting to the final, like it was some amazing achievement and great to see because it's taken them almost a decade since massive investment
It's actually really embarassing how bad they have been in the champions league for so long despite being bankrolled by a regime
Bet they're thinking.."who the hell let this bloke in"
Even though they've had unlimited funds to do it, it's still interesting as a football matter to see how the project has unfolded and analyze what they've done to succeed.
I agree with every word of the initial video at the same time.
I don't see what's inconsistent about being interested in watching PSG or City or whoever as a competitive matter, while also as a football fan being supportive of rules and structures that would prevent the values and interests of projects like that from taking over the sport globally and reversing the trend back towards a more egalitarian people's game. You can do both, IMO.
It's bollocks lumping RBL in with PSG, and there's plenty of hypocrisy by other German clubs toward RB Leipzig too. So what if they are owned by a drinks company or the guy that owns the drinks company. There are other clubs in Germany (Bayer eg) that started life as "company" teams, and Bayern dominate German football thanks to some of the biggest corporate sponsorship deals in the world - if they feel so strongly why don't they tell those sponsors to share that sponsorship money round the league to other teams?
They've stayed well within FFP, aren't owned by an oil state with human rights issues, they are owned by a guy who made his fortune selling fizzy pop.
The point is not whether or not he's telling the truth but the fact that in this country nobody would be allowed (or willing) to make such derogatory remarks about football clubs. All the pundits stay clear of such controversial topics in case of reprisal. They would do nothing to rock the boat that pays them most handsomely.
There are rules in Germany about being "owned" by anybody in the sense it's understood in other countries. Rules that Leipzig have made a mockery of. Even the name RB Leipzig itself is a thumb in the eye of those rules.
I have a soft spot for them personally, as the modern history of the game there is one of the West German establishment essentially colonizing the fan interest and young talent of the former East Germany. There are always lots of axes under which to view these things.
(You could argue PSG is fighting the good fight keeping France among Europe's dwindling relevant leagues preventing further consolidation, and you could even argue Qatar's predations are leavened by their being a counterweight to the growing Far Right Israeli-Saudi-US Republican Party axis in Middle East affairs. Always another side to the story)
And any German club, Leipzig included, is going to look a lot more like a community, fan-driven operation than an elite global brand elsewhere.
But that's the thing, Germany has enshrined those values into its football more than any other major nation, and Leipzig represents a direction of travel away from that.
German fans hate Bayern too of course, because everybody hates someone that wins that much.
Why is everyone upset about City or PSG, yet, they don't have a problem with FLY EMIRATES sponsorship on kits?
I don't mind Leipzig. They are healthy club, the city embraced them. Why would I hate them? Their swuad is full of young talents, their academy is good and German NT is surely good with that.
This is their romantic football right?
Fuck off.
I don't mind Leipzig. They are healthy club, the city embraced them. Why would I hate them? Their swuad is full of young talents, their academy is good and German NT is surely good with that.
This is their romantic football right?
Fuck off.
It's really funny how in general American sports fans are horrified by the notion of advertising on sports uniforms, but the MLS is a big exception and there was actually fan pressure to allow shirt sponsors because that's associated with "real" soccer.